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I apologize for boring you with such mundane stuff as major league baseball…. but when the lowly Texas Rangers score 30 points in a ballgame, I think it’s pretty clear that the world, as we know it, is coming to an end….!

Belive it or not….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070822/bba-rangers-orioles/

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Originally posted by deadlockvictim:
I apologize for boring you with such mundane stuff as major league baseball…. but when the lowly Texas Rangers score 30 points in a ballgame, I think it’s pretty clear that the world, as we know it, is coming to an end….!

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Originally posted by Geezer:

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Originally posted by deadlockvictim:
I apologize for boring you with such mundane stuff as major league baseball…. but when the lowly Texas Rangers score 30 points in a ballgame, I think it’s pretty clear that the world, as we know it, is coming to an end….!

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Boy, the tin-foil hat brigade must be asleep today, not to note the fact the the Rangers were once owned by none other than...

GEORGE W. BUSH

Now that the pumps are primed...

Let The Conspiracy Theories Begin!!!

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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A Big Slice of the Texas Rangers for a Little Money (and a Big Profit)

The third unusually easy deal for George Bush Junior was his involvement in the Texas Rangers baseball team. In a nutshell, he was offered a piece of this valuable franchise for only $600,000, by supporters of his dad who also bailed out his failing oil company. He sold his stake for $14 million - while Texas governor -- to a Texas millionaire with lots of businesses regulated by his administration. "When all it is all said and done, I will have made more money than I ever dreamed I would make," Bush told the Forth Worth Star-Telegram.

Bush was allowed to buy 1.8% of the team for $600,000 of borrowed money, and was even made one of the two general managers. His qualifications for partial ownership? Several years working at failing oil companies, and his political connections through his father. It's hard to be sure, but we're guessing that latter was probably more important.

Junior tripled his investment, like the other owners, with the help of massive government intervention and subsidies. But his real wealth came from simply being given 10% of the team as a "bonus" for "putting together the investment team."
Even if he really had done that work, it's an absurd bonus ($12.2 million), but the fact is that he didn't add much. Cincinatti financier William DeWitt brought Bush in, not vice versa, shortly after George Bush Sr. was elected president. (DeWitt had also invested in Junior's oil companies.). The only investor Bush actually brought in was Roland Betts, a Yale fraternity brother, and that wasn't good enough.

Under Junior's management, the deal was about to fall apart until baseball commissioner Peter Uebberoth brought in another investment group led by Fort Worth Billionaire Richard Rainwater and Dallas investor "Rusty" Rose. Since the deal, both men have profited greatly from business with the Texas administration of George Bush, Jr. Rose personally invested $3.2 million and became the other general manager of the team. Under the team partnership agreement, Bush Junior couldn't take any "material actions" wihtout Rose's prior approval. There was also a method for removing Junior as a general partner, but no way to remove Rose. Yet Rose's "bonus" for his role in setting up the deal was less than half of Junior's.

What kind of owners would approve such a big payoff to Bush? In addition to Rose and Rainwater, men with business pending before Texas government, the owners included William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds, major contributors to President Bush who had also purchased Junior's failing oil company through their Spectrum 7 Energy company.

If this deal doesn't smell bad enough already, consider Bush's blatant hypocrisy. The main value of the team is its new stadium (ranked by Financial World as the most profitable in baseball) and 300 acres of vacant land the team owns between the stadium and 6 Flags of Texas, which is next door.

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Ever wonder what the Bush haters are gonna do with themselves after Bush leaves office

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Ever wonder what the Bush haters are gonna do with themselves after Bush leaves office

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i don't think we will beat the poor dead horse any more than you guys did (and are still doing) with Slick Willie!

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:

Oh please...try , try to be honest for once.

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Oh please...try , try to be honest for once.

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Honestly...only a loon would SERIOUSLY hope for either a Pug or a Dim. We need fresh blood with no favours owed.In dreamland Chrisisall

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Oh please...try , try to be honest for once. The Clinton stuff is a tiny, tiny, miniscule atomic particle in comparison to the Hate-Bush Globally funded MACHINE....

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:

I had believed that you were smarter than that...to think that it won't be a Dem or Repub indicates a delusional, almost pathelogical denial of reality. Grow up is all...Chris

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
the Hate-Bush Globally funded MACHINE....

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